Re: 2.27 Release Notes - Call for items

2009-08-04 Thread Seif Lotfy
Hi guys, As for Zeitgeist and GNOME Zeitgeist. The engine has been released as 0.2 and we are working on the 0.3 should be done by end of august i hope! GNOME Zeitgeist should be released very soon too (2 weeks from now)! Having trouble with my notebook and so on but i think i can get things going

Re: Tracker, Zeitgeist, Couchdb...where is the problem ?

2009-08-18 Thread Seif Lotfy
- Tracker finds relationships between data over content. Song A and Song B are form Artist Y who is from the same hometown of Artsit X - Zeitgeist finds relationships between data over usage. Last week google.com and Project A were used alot together. So google is now in

Re: Tracker, Zeitgeist, Couchdb...where is the problem ?

2009-08-18 Thread Seif Lotfy
Problem with thinking of these tecnologies as what wil lit give the user is a wrong approach IMHO. The 3 technologies provide developers of applications standards and tools to provide better user experience. Unless the technology has a client (Such as the Tracker Search uses the Tracker Storage)

Re: Tracker, Zeitgeist, Couchdb...where is the problem ?

2009-08-18 Thread Seif Lotfy
2009/8/19 Matthias Clasen matthias.cla...@gmail.com On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Seif Lotfys...@lotfy.com wrote: Problem with thinking of these tecnologies as what wil lit give the user is a wrong approach IMHO. 'Designing' the next desktop by picking the cool-sounding technologies

Re: Tracker, Zeitgeist, Couchdb...where is the problem ?

2009-08-20 Thread Seif Lotfy
- Tracker finds relationships between data over content. Song A and Song B are form Artist Y who is from the same hometown of Artsit X - Zeitgeist finds relationships between data over usage. Last week google.com and Project A were used alot together. So google is now in

Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

2009-11-02 Thread Seif Lotfy
2009/11/2 Jamie McCracken jamie.mccr...@googlemail.com On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 17:12 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: My initial understanding of the Zeitgeist engine was that it was a data collection engine to collect a rich view of how the user used their computer over time, which

Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

2009-11-02 Thread Seif Lotfy
2009/11/3 Owen Taylor otay...@redhat.com On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 16:28 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: Owen: It sounds like GNOME Shell will likely not integrate with GNOME 2.30. How are users expected to turn on/enable GNOME Shell? At the Boston Summit, I remember people suggesting that

Re: GSOC Proposal

2010-03-21 Thread Seif Lotfy
I think you should get in contact with the Tracker and Zeitgeist developers Tracker providers content indexing and semantic relations while Zeitgeist does contextual relevancy :) Please don't hesitate to visit us at #tracker on GIMPNET and #zeitgeist on Freenode Cheers Seif 2010/3/21 SUMIT RANJAN

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2010-04-22 Thread Seif Lotfy
Our current development is heavily based on launchpad. We are discussing the issue and we don't see a problem to have our trunk from launchpad ported to git with every release. However we do want to keep our development branches in bzr+launchpad. So with every branch merge with our launchpad trunk

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2010-04-22 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Sandy Armstrong sanfordarmstr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Germán Póo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 19:01 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote: Our current development is heavily based on launchpad. We are discussing

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2010-05-02 Thread Seif Lotfy
Dear GNOMErs, GNOME Activity Journal is being moved to the GNOME Development Infrastructure... However after some heavy discussion within the Zeitgeist team, we decided to keep Zeitgeist in Launchpad, and not move it to the GNOME Development Infrastructure. While Zeitgeist has been developed

Re: Module Proposal: GNOME Activity Journal

2010-06-03 Thread Seif Lotfy
Can you please elaborate why GAJ was not accepted... We are still clueless :) On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Thorsten Prante thors...@prante.eu wrote: Purpose: GNOME Activity Journal is not a File Browser but an Activity Browser. It uses the Zeitgeist Framework to display what you did

Shell + Tracker + Zeitgeist

2010-06-12 Thread Seif Lotfy
Looking at the mockups by McCann I am looking for a Tracker + Zeitgeist integration in Shell. Except for Frequent, and Conversations I think everything else can be done over Tracker... I would love to know how Frequent will be categorized... I hope in frequency you could cluster into today, last

Apologies to GNOME

2011-01-26 Thread Seif Lotfy
It has been a very bumpy road for Zeitgeist with GNOME. I really don't feel like going into details and history since this won't help us proceed. I admit my part of the problem. While I might not be the best developer around I do try to bring something new to the table and I do hope that GNOME

Re: systemd as external dependency

2011-05-19 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 01:10:02PM +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote: The number of times I have been mocked and derided and laughed at on IRC is staggering. That's not a real distro. That's not maintained by real GNOME people.

Re: Features !

2011-10-06 Thread Seif Lotfy
The Jump-list stuff has been on my list for a while: What we are facing here is: Adding actions to the appmenus: new tab (browser), new note (for tomboy or gnote) or pause (for the media players) Adding document shortcuts in the appmenus: 4 most recent documents and other most used (in

Re: Features !

2011-10-10 Thread Seif Lotfy
Are there any suggestions towards jumplists? On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Seif Lotfy s...@lotfy.com wrote: The Jump-list stuff has been on my list for a while: What we are facing here is: Adding actions to the appmenus: new tab (browser), new note (for tomboy or gnote) or pause

Re: Gnome Contacts developers wanted

2011-10-20 Thread Seif Lotfy
What is the language used to develop? Cheers Seif On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote: During the 3.2 cycle I developed the Gnome Contacts app from scratch based on designs (and interaction with) Allan Day. There wasn't much interaction with other

Re: 3.4 Features, final round

2011-11-06 Thread Seif Lotfy
Hey Sriram I don't think the new GNOME policies allow me to introduce or suggest Zeitgeist as a policy. But rather require a feature to require Zeitgeist... Jump-lists in my opinion require Zeitgeist. Also Federico had sent a mail suggesting the jumplists with Zeitgeist as a feature proposal but

Re: 3.4 Features, final round

2011-11-06 Thread Seif Lotfy
Found the 2 links where we tried to open this subject... Me: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-October/msg00026.html Federico: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-October/msg00166.html On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Seif Lotfy s...@lotfy.com wrote

Re: 3.4 Features, final round

2011-11-06 Thread Seif Lotfy
What about frequent files? On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Matthias Clasen matthias.cla...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote: Hello all, + Jumplists

Re: 3.4 Features, final round

2011-11-06 Thread Seif Lotfy
have is chronological order. With Zeitgeist its easier to detect such noise, by knowing the count, which allows us make more use of the slots. 4 recently used + 4 most used (within the last week). Cheers Seif On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Seif Lotfy s...@lotfy.com wrote: What about frequent

Re: 3.4 Features, final round

2011-11-06 Thread Seif Lotfy
Lets avoid the fact that this is by MS, it is still useful to look at. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/jump-lists They distinguish between recently and frequently used too On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Seif Lotfy s...@lotfy.com wrote: Let me elaborate, One

Re: 3.4 Features, final round

2011-11-06 Thread Seif Lotfy
Well during this UDS they tasked the Zeitgeist team to work on putting in the frequently and recently used into their jumplists. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-p-zeitgeist On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at

Re: 3.4 Features, final round

2011-11-06 Thread Seif Lotfy
is if the app is running and pushed them into the jumplists. On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Florian Müllner fmuell...@gnome.orgwrote: On dom, 2011-11-06 at 21:52 +0100, Seif Lotfy wrote: Lets avoid the fact that this is by MS, it is still useful to look at. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7

Re: 3.4 Features, final round

2011-11-06 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Florian Müllner fmuell...@gnome.orgwrote: On dom, 2011-11-06 at 22:52 +0100, Seif Lotfy wrote: What you see for me doesnt necessarily mean that the program populates the jumplist alone. It means the items in the jumplist are prgram specific. To me

Re: 3.4 Features, final round

2011-11-06 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.netwrote: On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Seif Lotfy s...@lotfy.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Florian Müllner fmuell...@gnome.org wrote: On dom, 2011-11-06 at 22:52 +0100, Seif Lotfy wrote: What you

Re: 3.4 Features, final round

2011-11-06 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Florian Müllner fmuell...@gnome.org wrote: On lun, 2011-11-07 at 00:23 +0100, Seif Lotfy wrote: On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Florian Müllner fmuell...@gnome.org To me it means that the application is in control of what appears

Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-17 Thread Seif Lotfy
*Purpose: *Zeitgeist is an event logging framework. It stores user activity in a structured manner and provides a powerful DBus API to query and monitor the log. Zeitgeist as such does not have a graphical component, but is intended to integrate wherever it makes sense. Just like Tracker, Folks

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-18 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat nalimi...@club.frwrote: Le mardi 17 avril 2012 à 22:47 +0200, Seif Lotfy a écrit : Purpose: Zeitgeist is an event logging framework. It stores user activity in a structured manner and provides a powerful DBus API to query and monitor

Feature Proposals vs new modules [was: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist]

2012-04-18 Thread Seif Lotfy
integration code. andre On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 22:47 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote: Purpose: Zeitgeist is an event logging framework. It stores user activity in a structured manner and provides a powerful DBus API to query and monitor the log. Zeitgeist as such does not have a graphical component

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-18 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Seif Lotfy s...@lotfy.com wrote: ... There are 3 issues in discussion or in development where Zeitgeist integration is reaching a halt due to the uncertainty of where Zeitgeist stands: Epiphany (Web): There has

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-18 Thread Seif Lotfy
features that are not proposed for 3.6 but would it work if I proposed our Activity Log Manager for GNOME 3.6 as a feature... I guess not, since Zeitgeist is not the main mean for logging activities in GNOME. What do you think? Cheers Seif On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Seif Lotfy s...@lotfy.com

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-19 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 23:43 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote: Clocks: The clocks app is designed by the GNOME designers. It is still more or less a prototype I am working on alongside Emily Gonyer

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-19 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 02:20 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote: So let me try to take Web use cases that could use Zeitgeist: * The user wants to type in the location bar and have suggestions pop out while typing

Feature Proposal: finding and rediscovering shared links

2012-04-19 Thread Seif Lotfy
Ben, Peter, and Bruce share links to interesting articles and videos and sometimes they can't check it, like if Bruce is in a meeting or out and about on his phone, but if his computer also kept track of the link in IM, then he could look at it then. So one thing is that Bruce is unavailable to

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-20 Thread Seif Lotfy
, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 23:43 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote: Clocks: The clocks app is designed by the GNOME designers. It is still more or less a prototype I am working on alongside Emily Gonyer. We wanted to make use of Zeitgeist in storing Alarms as a type

Re: Feature Proposal: finding and rediscovering shared links

2012-04-21 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Seif Lotfy s...@lotfy.com wrote: ... So a possible view for this feature can be done in Web: Links received can then be automatically put in the queue of Web. And once visited can be taken

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-21 Thread Seif Lotfy
issues should be considered valid. So application maintainers don't have to take care of their logs (some technical outsourcing :P) Cheers Seif On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Seif Lotfy s...@lotfy.com wrote: Purpose: Zeitgeist is an event logging framework. It stores user activity

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-21 Thread Seif Lotfy
. But on the whole, I'm going to agree with them: Zeitgeist *isn't* the right technology for our finding and reminding strategy. On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Seif Lotfy s...@lotfy.com wrote: I would like to quote Allan Day (from another public mail thread): --- I realise that you're

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-21 Thread Seif Lotfy
Hey Luis. Very good question. Zeitgeist and Tracker are compeletely different. Tracker is a metadata storage. It is used to store tags and information about files and other data on your computer. Zeitgeist is a log. It is a very intelligent and responsive log. We can not do what tracker providers.

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-22 Thread Seif Lotfy
Hi Olav, Thanks a lot for clearing it up. This makes a lot of sense. As I see it there is two ways to approach this: 1) Implement first then propose as an external dependency:The risk is that implementation is done and GNOME decides the dependency is unacceptable, thus rendering a couple of

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-22 Thread Seif Lotfy
I agree with Florian here. It took me a bit of time to interact with the design team but it is possible. It is a very young team and extremely busy and overloaded. They are welcoming for anyone to work with them on design and once you get their attention they will help you integrate more. The best

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-22 Thread Seif Lotfy
While this thread reflects a bit about some community observations on how things are handled in GNOME, and i support such a discussion, I find it a bit off-topic. Can we start a new thread discussing these issues or so. Let us stay on topic. Can an applications use Zeitgeist for

Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

2012-04-22 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Florian Max florian.muell...@gmail.com wrote: In the end your history is scattered all over the place :P The logs are there and there is not common way to manage them. Having a central log like Zeitgeist will allow you to develop policies and blacklist for

Re: Openness (Was: Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist)

2012-04-22 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 18:21 +0200, Florian Max wrote: Which brings us to the matter of openness: the results of everything the design team does ends up on the GNOME wiki under live.gnome.org/Design. I think people are

Re: Openness (Was: Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist)

2012-04-22 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Seif Lotfy s...@lotfy.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 18:21 +0200, Florian Max wrote: Which brings us

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-24 Thread Seif Lotfy
OK first let us all please calm down (This does not apply to Emmanuele, since he seems always calm :P) We all have the best intentions at heart. I think Federico knows exactly that the design team has best intentions. And I hope the design team knows that Federico has the same intentions. This

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-24 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 16:11 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 10:58 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 10:54 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: Hello Federico, Em Mon, 2012-04-23 às

Re: Rules for design in Gnome

2012-04-24 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 16:11 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: --8-- From: Maître D' Subject: Spitting in the soup The kitchen staff IS NOT welcome to: * Spit in the soup --8-- I didn't say you spat in the soup

Re: Design in the open

2012-04-25 Thread Seif Lotfy
I am happy Allan drafted the problem thoroughly and and also provided initial steps that could solve it. Well done. On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, April 25, 2012 9:27 am, Allan Day wrote: Echoing what Brian said, I like these suggestions for

Re: Feature Proposal: finding and rediscovering shared links

2012-05-08 Thread Seif Lotfy
I created a new wiki page for this. Hylke and Garrett have been helping out on the idea and the design. https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointFive/Features/FindingAndRediscoveringSharedLinks On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.orgwrote: On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 15:48

Re: Feature Proposal: finding and rediscovering shared links

2012-05-09 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Seif Lotfy s...@lotfy.com wrote: I created a new wiki page for this. Hylke and Garrett have been helping out on the idea and the design. https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointFive/Features